Deandre Is New Teacher at a Local Elementary School

question 119

Multiple Choice

Deandre is new teacher at a local elementary school. He decides to conduct a brief study testing the fifth graders knowledge of science at the beginning of the school year and at the end of the school year. He will randomly assign students to either a "hands-on" science group that does experiments with each lesson plan or to a "video" science group that assigns videos and online tutorials in support of the science lesson plans. Based on this information which of the following would be considered the dependent variable (DV) ?

• A) type of science group
• B) pretest and posttest of science knowledge
• C) gender of fifth graders
• D) age of the fifth graders

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